Research Scientist

Applications are invited for a temporary post of a Research Scientist within UCD School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science. The bioeconomy encompasses the production of renewable biological resources and the conversion of these resources into value added products, such as food, feed, biobased products and bioenergy. The SFI funded Bioeconomy research centre (BiOrbic) performs world leading frontier research in collaboration with industry to convert Ireland's natural resources on land and in the sea to a wide range of value added products for the development of a sustainable Irish bioeconomy. Biorbic's research programme aligns with the European Biobased Industries Joint undertaking (BBI-JU) strategic research and innovation agenda (SIRA). This person hired to this position will investigate the scale up of the production of biobased products using fermentation (biotechnology) and the harvesting of those products emerging from the fermentation. The research project will use Fermentatio...